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Oct. 7th, 2008 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsA friendly dose of surrealism for your day.
This morning, after a dental visit where I got the bad news ("You're gonna need a crown on 13, and probably 14 too"), I was walking toward the ${DAYJOB}. I stopped at a crosswalk to wait for the light, and next to me stood a man in his mid to late 20's carrying a hardcover copy of Artificial Intelligence for... and I couldn't see the rest.
"What are you reading there?"
He moved his arm and I could read, Artificial Intelligence for Video Game Programmers, a serious textbook, not one of those how-tos you get at Barnes & Noble. "Oh," I said. "Looks hardcore."
He said, "It is."
"Hey, do you know![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shaterri?"
"Yeah, I know him," he said. "I'll probably see him sometime today."
"Can you give this to him? I've only been carrying it forever." I handed him a Yuletime card I picked up last Christmas season and bounced when I tried to mail it to Shaterri, twice, with "no such person at the address" marked.
"Yeah, that'll be a long trip, from my office to his."
"Thanks."
This morning, after a dental visit where I got the bad news ("You're gonna need a crown on 13, and probably 14 too"), I was walking toward the ${DAYJOB}. I stopped at a crosswalk to wait for the light, and next to me stood a man in his mid to late 20's carrying a hardcover copy of Artificial Intelligence for... and I couldn't see the rest.
"What are you reading there?"
He moved his arm and I could read, Artificial Intelligence for Video Game Programmers, a serious textbook, not one of those how-tos you get at Barnes & Noble. "Oh," I said. "Looks hardcore."
He said, "It is."
"Hey, do you know
shaterri?""Yeah, I know him," he said. "I'll probably see him sometime today."
"Can you give this to him? I've only been carrying it forever." I handed him a Yuletime card I picked up last Christmas season and bounced when I tried to mail it to Shaterri, twice, with "no such person at the address" marked.
"Yeah, that'll be a long trip, from my office to his."
"Thanks."
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Date: 2008-10-08 01:32 am (UTC)There are handful of places in the world were geek supertravellers just kind of naturally end up, concentrating eddies in the flow of people, that sort people the way a swirling pan can sort flakes of gold.
It makes for serindipity on the edge of surrealism.